This movie was a real and great surprise for us. We rarely watch English movies with subtitles. Fortunately, we made an exception here, because the English is easy to understand, so we hardly needed the subtitles at all.
It should also be mentioned that the movie is not dominated by "chatter" (which was very pleasant), and the dialog doesn't matter here either. Because this movie lives from its great main actors, the young Aoy (Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying) and the well-known star chef Chef Paul (Nopachai) succeed in bringing an exciting, interesting and also emotionally moving social drama to the screen, which focuses on the gourmet culture and holds up a mirror to us in an absolutely accurate way.
"The poor eat to end their hunger. But when you have more than enough to eat, your hunger doesn't end"...
We were particularly impressed by the outstanding beauty shots and image design. The only term that comes to mind here is "food porn".
(We worked up such an appetite that we went to our favorite Italian restaurant that very evening)
The story is told very calmly and somewhat slowly, but thanks to the great production and the convincing Aoy, there's never a dull moment; you either revel in the images with a puddle on your tongue or you're curious to see what happens next, because the suspense lasts until the end. So the movie was over quicker than expected.
What I found most fitting was the sentence: "Is it expensive because it's special, or is it special because it's expensive?"
If this "delicacy" had been with German dubbing, I wouldn't have been able to resist giving it one more point.
------------- Conclusion: Excellent.
It should also be mentioned that the movie is not dominated by "chatter" (which was very pleasant), and the dialog doesn't matter here either. Because this movie lives from its great main actors, the young Aoy (Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying) and the well-known star chef Chef Paul (Nopachai) succeed in bringing an exciting, interesting and also emotionally moving social drama to the screen, which focuses on the gourmet culture and holds up a mirror to us in an absolutely accurate way.
"The poor eat to end their hunger. But when you have more than enough to eat, your hunger doesn't end"...
We were particularly impressed by the outstanding beauty shots and image design. The only term that comes to mind here is "food porn".
(We worked up such an appetite that we went to our favorite Italian restaurant that very evening)
The story is told very calmly and somewhat slowly, but thanks to the great production and the convincing Aoy, there's never a dull moment; you either revel in the images with a puddle on your tongue or you're curious to see what happens next, because the suspense lasts until the end. So the movie was over quicker than expected.
What I found most fitting was the sentence: "Is it expensive because it's special, or is it special because it's expensive?"
If this "delicacy" had been with German dubbing, I wouldn't have been able to resist giving it one more point.
------------- Conclusion: Excellent.